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Climbing to the cloud

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 18 Dec 2015

Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the …

A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 17 Dec 2015

After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell…

It simply isn’t cricket

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 17 Nov 2015

It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitica…

The quantum weirdness powering biology

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 5 Nov 2015

It allows particles to be in two places at once, pass through impenetrable barriers or maintain spo…

Touching the sky

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 27 Oct 2015

Bats are amongst the most agile of fliers – but can it really be their sense of touch which is key …

Reaching out for the origins of life

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 22 Oct 2015

Evidence suggests meteorites could have been an important source of the prebiotic compounds require…

Characterising the future of medicine

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 13 Oct 2015

Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. H…

Better science with improved efficiency

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 3 Sep 2015

Can laboratories really perform better science with improved efficiency and lower environmental imp…

Finding the personal touch

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 18 Aug 2015

The drive for personalised medicine requires an increasingly intimate understanding of the human ge…

Close to the madding crowd

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 4 Aug 2015

To engage the public in your work, whilst also solving that all-important research funding problem?…

Bringing biotech to industry

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 16 Jun 2015

Recent large-scale investment has seen Industrial Biotechnology hit the headlines. It is a rapidly …

GOING LIVE! How to gain an advantage for live cell imaging

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 9 Jun 2015

Dynamic imaging can reveal so much about cell biology, but which camera system is best for your lab…

Biotech crowdfunding with bite

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 19 May 2015

Crowdfunding is becoming de rigueur for many enterprising small businesses – but is it really a sui…

Biology gets the blues

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 12 May 2015

The UK has an enviable legacy when it comes to biological research…but do we take it for granted?

The power of partnership takes on HIV

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 28 Apr 2015

Having already made notable contributions to our understanding of how HIV works, Professor Andrew L…

The big squeeze

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 3 Mar 2015

The physical properties of proteins, so vital for cellular function, are intimately linked to the c…

The wonder stuff – How peptide hydrogels could change the face of biomedicine

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 20 Jan 2015

With a list of characteristics and applications long enough to make most bioengineers take notice, …

A new lease of life

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 13 Jan 2015

When a large scientific company decides to leave a manufacturing or R&D plant, what happens to the …

The all seeing AI

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 6 Jan 2015

Stephen Hawking and other high profile scientists have recently issuing stark warnings over the thr…

A meeting of microscopic strengths

qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 24 Dec 2014

Integrated correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) offers the possibility to study the sam…